Iranian Oscar Nominee Jafar Panahi Was on Karlovy Vary’s Guest List. Then Came the Travel Ban.
The Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) was really hoping to welcome Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident) to its 60th edition and 80th anniversary edition in the Czech spa town. But a travel ban for the Oscar nominee and another prison sentence that he is facing in Iran shattered that hope. In early June, an…